I guess I fail to understand the concern of an exit plan. I agree we have not fought this war properly and have used the wrong lessons to justify and plan the war. We have a Cold War mentality administration using the lessons of WWII to plan and execute the war. Yet, I can't say I agree with the wording of the news snippet either, it sounds defeatist.
Why does an exit strategy have to infer defeat. We should not, cannot not and will not stay there forever. Nor should we stay for 28 years as we did in Japan before we turned the country over to the Japanese to rule. Therefore shouldn't we have an exit strategy? Not a fall back because we can't win strategy (like the news snippet makes it sound). But a solid exit strategy. One that would say prepare Iraqi troops to take over military operations. A plan that might leave us in country but gradually phase us out of daily operations (hence reducing the exposure of our troops). A plan that might eventually have us staged out of the cities, somewhere where effectively our troops are fairly safe, but can be called on to help squash a major uprising or something if needed. I think most Iraqis, including many of those who are against us being their now would support us being close enough to help support their government and troops but not leading the daily operations. A safety net if you will. > It is even worse than that. The people of this nation, regardless of > political affiliation have adopted the attitude that history does not apply > any more or they are too smart to allow the problems of the past to happen. > Guess what folks? It does and it did! > > > >> I swear it's like these people didn't take any history classes, like >> most of them weren't already in gov't service when Vietnam was ending. >> Don't they remember that this is basically what we did then. They >> forget about when the Embassy fell? The NVA armor rolling over the >> corpses of the people we promised to protect? >> >> Makes me sick. >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:229931 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
